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After rebounding from a major flood with vibrant new leadership and a new toolbox of performance technologies, the ATLAS Institute鈥檚 B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance now offers more varied and interesting opportunities to artists, engineers, creative technologists and performers than ever before.

Museum of 麻豆影院鈥檚 new exhibit, Voces Vivas: Stories from the Latino Community in 麻豆影院 County, Past and Present features Andrea Fautheree M谩rquez's thesis project, "Chicana Light," which explores the Chicano civil rights movement in Colorado.

鈥嬧�婯ailey Shara, an ATLAS PhD student and a member of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, and her team, won third place and $1,000 for Chembotix robotic automation platform. Annie Margaret, teaching assistant professor with the ATLAS Institute, and her team, placed fourth with Digital Wellness x NoSo November.

ATLAS PhD student Fiona Bell is passionate about sustainability; her doctoral dissertation tackles how to reduce waste through encouraging intimate relationships between designers, the materials they use and the artifacts they develop. In recognition of her work, Bell recently received financial support to help complete her thesis through a Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

She鈥檚 a trapeze artist. He鈥檚 a computer scientist. Together, they鈥檙e hoping to redefine immersive performance.

A group of six artists and technologists connected to the ATLAS community contributed to BLDG 61鈥檚 Maker Made 2022, which runs through March 28 at the 麻豆影院 Public Library. Zack Weaver, who played a key role in establishing the ATLAS BTU Lab and the show鈥檚 curator, says the inspiration for Maker Made goes back to his days at Carnegie Mellon with ATLAS Director Mark Gross.

Varsha Koushik, an ATLAS affiliated PhD student and a member of the Superhuman Computing Lab, won the Three-Minute Thesis Competition. Anthony Pinter, an incoming teaching assistant professor (starting fall 2022) in the ATLAS Institute and a PhD candidate in information science at the 麻豆影院, was a runner-up.

Layne Hubbard (PhD CS, Cog Sci and Neurosci '21) recently joined forces with the Digital Learning Lab and PBSKids on an effort to develop artificial intelligence for the TV show 鈥淓linor Wonders Why.鈥� Hubbard was an affiliated ATLAS PhD student; Mark Gross, ATLAS director and professor of computer science, served on Hubbard's PhD advisory committee.

Wayne Seltzer started his own repair business when he was in the eighth grade; now a retired engineer, he's part of the global fix-it movement.